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Sunday, December 01, 2013

THE MYSTERIOUS KELLERS

Daniel and Frances Keller, in Austin Texas, 1992.

In 1992, in Austin Texas, Frances and Daniel Keller were each sentenced to 48 years in prison for involvement in child abuse at their Oak Hill daycare centre for preschool children.

Evidence was produced in court that the Kellers had engaged in satanic ritual abuse.

A key witness in the Keller case was three-year-old Christina Chaviers.

On 15 August, 1991, on the way to an appointment with therapist Donna David-Campbell, Christina told her mother, Suzanne Guinne, that she did not like Daniel Keller, because Daniel Keller had "pulled her panties down and spanked her and he pooed and peed on her head."

At this time, Suzanne Guinne and her husband, Rick Chaviers, were involved in a divorce.

Christina had been seeing Donna David-Campbell for several months because Christina had 'behavior problems'.

During the therapy session, Christina told her mother and the therapist that Daniel had penetrated her vagina with an ink pen on numerous occasions.

Christina also said that and that Daniel "pee and poops on her and it comes out of his bottom."

In the months that followed, Christina related that two other people - a dark-haired woman and a man who looked like country singer Kenny Rogers - had also come to the day care to take part in the abuse.

Christina said that she'd been poked with needles by the Kellers and that Daniel had dug a hole in the back yard and put her in it.

She said that the Kellers tortured and killed animals and said that the Kellers had murdered, decapitated, and disemboweled a baby.

BrendanNash said that the Kellers had held a gun to his head and forced him to assault his infant sister while they videotaped the abuse.

According to Brendan's mother, Brendan said that there were "secrets at Fran and Danny's house."

Brendan's mother told the television show American Justice in 1993 that the Kellers "had chopping knives, and they tied Brendan's arm down, and told him to lay with his arm out, and to close his eyes, and they made a big chop down with the knife.

"And they told him not to look, that Daniel Keller had chopped off his arm, and that they took out the bone and they put ... Satan's bone in its place."

On 15 August, 1991, Christina was examined at Brackenridge Hospital and the emergency room doctorsaid that he saw signs that her outer genitalia were red and that there was some deformity to her hymen.

He concluded that the injuries could be consistent with sexual abuse but could not rule out the possibility that there was another cause.

He more recently said that he saw something that night that was not "normal to me," but he might have been wrong.

Before the latest arrests 16 people had already been held across the world of whom one - a US Air Force officer - committed suicide.Police say they believe many of those involved in the ring had sexually abused children themselves and then posted the images on the internet.

Oct. 2009 - A third woman has been charged in connection with an investigation that saw three others, including nursery worker Vanessa George, admit child sex offences.Tracy Lyons, 39, from Portsmouth, was arrested after a multi-force police inquiry that involved Little Ted Nursery in Plymouth.Ms Lyons, said to be a mother of eight and heavily pregnant, appeared before magistrates in Portsmouth on Saturday, Hampshire Police said. She was charged with the sexual abuse of a child, taking an indecent image of a child and distributing indecent images of a child.

Prosecutors say they intend to present as witnesses 41 former pupils of the school, almost all of whom, physicians testified at the hearing, showed physical evidence of having been sexually abused.

The second of the children to testify at the hearing, a 10-year-old boy who attended the McMartin Preschool almost five years ago, has now been on the witness stand for nine days, including eight days under intense cross examination by defense lawyers who have been trying to find inconsistencies in his story.

So far, often under rapid-fire questioning that might wither some adult witnesses, the child has stuck to his story with only minor contradictions.

Once I began to familiarize myself with the literature on the subject, I began to see where the well-orchestrated flood of "witch hunt" accusations was originating: from the molesters themselves.

To begin with, the founder of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation had been accused of sexual molestation by her daughter. and major contributors and researchers" affiliated with the group are usually either accused molesters, members of pedophile advocacy groups, or appear in journals such as Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia.

As one False Memory Syndrome Foundation Advisory Board member recently told Paidika, "Pedophiles can boldly and courageously affirm what they choose. They can say that what they want is to find the best way to love.. With boldness they can say, 'I believe this is in fact part of God's will.'"

In addition, some of authors of false memory hooks also turned out to be pedophile advocates.

For example, one of the most widely cited books claiming that cult abuse reports were mass hysteria is Paul and Shirley Eberle's The Abuse of Innocence: The McMartin Preschool trial.

Taken quite seriously by reviewers and widely quoted In later magazine articles as authoritative, the book makes such claims as that the over 100 McMartin children who reported they had been abused by a cult were all "brainwashed" and the mothers were all "hysterical" and that it was meaningless that physicians found three-quarters of the children bore physical evidence that corroborated their stories.

What reviewers didn't mention was that the Eberles had been called "the most prolific publishers of child pornography in the United States" by Sgt. Toby Tyler, a San Bernadino deputy sheriff who is a nationally recognized expert on child pornography.

Even when "authorities" and cited to disprove the existence of any physical evidence of cult abuse, these usually end up referring to one man, ...Lanning of the FBI, who says he has "been unable to find one murder of anyone by two or more people following typical satanic ritualistic prescriptions."

What is never mentioned Is that Lanning has done no investigative work on any cult anywhere and ignores all kinds of convictions for cult abuse that are in police and court records, while others who have actually done ritual abuse investigative work for the F.B.I. are ignored by the press.

The data indicate that the press exaggerates "stranger danger," while intra-familial cases are underreported.

Newspaper accounts also minimize the extent to which guilty defendants avoid prison.

Conclusions: Generalizing about the nature of child molestation cases in criminal court on the basis of newspaper coverage is inappropriate.

The coverage is less extensive than often claimed, and it is skewed in ways that are typical of the mass media....Conclusions - The findings in this study dispute many popular claims about "media hysteria" over child sexual abuse.

Based on a comprehensive analysis of all those charged with this crime in Rhode Island in 1 year, it is clear that the coverage was generally limited and often nonexistent.

More than half the people charged with child molestation never had their name in the newspaper.

Only a handful of those covered received anything more than a few stories, and much of that in brief "fillers" (under 200 words).

The lack of support for the "hysteria" position is all the more significant because most of the coverage in this study was in 1993.

That is the year that Jenkins (1996) called "the peak of media concern" about pedophile priests. Newsweek had a cover story in 1993 about the so-called "hysteria" about child sexual abuse (Shapiro, 1993).

This study suggests that the hysteria narrative does not have comprehensive empirical support in the real world. Like an urban legend, this narrative is continually told and accepted without appropriate skepticism.

8. False allegations of child sexual abuse by children are rare: Interesting how "skeptics" need to resort to name calling and personal attacks.

Or misrepresenting information like this article.

But it doesn't work.

Those reading these posts will see through these tactics.

How often do children's reports of abuse turn out to be false?

Research has consistently shown that false allegations of child sexual abuse by children are rare. Jones and McGraw examined 576 consecutive referrals of child sexual abuse to the Denver Department of Social Services, and categorized the reports as either reliable or fictitious.

In only 1% of the total cases were children judged to have advanced a fictitious allegation. Jones, D. P. H., and J. M. McGraw: Reliable and Fictitious Accounts of Sexual Abuse to Children. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2, 27-45, 1987.

Research with children whose sexual abuse has been proven has shown that children tend to minimize and deny abuse, not exaggerate or over-report such incidents.

Satanism and cult rituals have been linked to scores of child-molestation cases nationwide in the past five years, including dozens in California....

After hearing similar tales over and over from people across the country, many investigators and child abuse experts now have come to believe in the unbelievable....there have been 60 to 70 "solid" cases of ritual sexual abuse in the past few years nationwide.

She and others have heard hundreds of children and adult - people who have never met and who live a continent apart - tell stories that are fundamentally the same. "Independently, the victims are describing incredibly similar circumstances,"

In a study of 105 women outpatients in a substance abuse clinic 54 % reported a history of childhood sexual abuse. 81% remembered all or part of the abuse. 19% reported they forgot the abuse for a period of time and later the memory returned.

Women who remembered the abuse their whole lives reported a clearer memory, with a more detailed picture. [Psychology of Women Quarterly, 18 (1994) 67-84.]

Loftus has also discussed "motivated forgetting", and has presented the documented study of a college professor who became unable to remember a series of traumas, but after some time was able to recover those memories.

Loftus remarked "after such an enormously stressful experience, many individuals wish to forget... And often their wish is granted." (Loftus, 1980/1988, p. 73)"

11. "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about one in five American children is sexually abused."

"Abusers also keep their victims quiet with threats of harm against the children or their families."
"Research confirms the capacity of the human brain to stop conscious recall of traumatic information.

In war veterans, Holocaust survivors and even crime victims, the brains' ability to protect itself by blocking unwanted memories is well-documented.

These memories can later be validly recalled, and false claims of childhood sexual abuse are exceedingly rare - and are often detectable."

Schools, athletic organizations, religious institutions, scouting and camping groups, and others try to insulate themselves from responsibility for the harmful behavior of people who work for them. And so, victims are betrayed again."

4 comments:

Anonymous
said...

Excellent if depressing articlw.

Delighted someone is tackling this "false memory syndrome" stuff.

Richard Dawkins is at the forefront of it. He said in The God Delusion:

We should be aware of the remarkable power of the mind to concoct false memories, especially when abetted by unscrupulous therapists and mercenary lawyers. The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories. This is so counter-intuitive that juries are easily swayed by sincere but false testimony from witnesses.’

He also said this:

,I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like mild paedophilia, and can’t find it in me to condemn it by the same standards as I or anyone would today.”

Those of us who are aware have to spread the word that these practices are widespread and interface with government projects such as MK Uktra.

Many of our leaders and officials are involved.

I think we have to find some kind of a radically different solution, such as appealing to those involved to come out of the cult, giving them some kind of an amnesty. Not all people who are involved enjoy doing this stuff - it goes against everything natural. For some, especially the young, it must be beyond awful to be embroiled. We need to offer them a safe way to get out.......I think.